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EDUCATION

1976-1977   Post-doctoral Trainee, Children's Hospital Medical Center (Harvard University Medical School) and Boston Veteran's Administration Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Atypical cognitive development.

1976   Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Psychology.

1970   B.A., University of California, Berkeley. Psychology.

EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS

1997-pres   Professor, Graduate School of Education. University of California, Berkeley.

1989-1997   Professor, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. University of California, Los Angeles.

1985-1986   Visiting Professor (Fulbright Fellow) Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife Brazil.

1983-1989   Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education. University of California, Los Angeles.

1977-1983   Assistant and Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program in Educational Psychology with joint appointment in Ph.D. Program in Developmental Psychology (with tenure since 1982). The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

1978-1980   Research Associate, Education Research Unit, University of Papua New Guinea.

1979   Visitor in residence, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California.

1977   Consultant, Interdisciplinary outpatient clinic on learning disabilities. Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

1975   Script Consultant, Film series on cognitive development. Produced by Far West Laboratories, San Francisco, California.

1974-1975   Research Assistant, Inter-generational study, Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley.

1972-1973   Teaching Assistant in Psychology, University of California at Berkeley. Introductory and Developmental Psychology.

1972   Project Director, Far West Laboratories, San Francisco, California. Project on children's self- concepts.

1969   Field research, Development of reasoning about moral dilemmas in Eskimo children. Lower Kalskag, Alaska.

GRANTS

1998-1999   Principal Investigator. Using Graphics to Represent Fractions in Upper Elementary Mathematics. Spencer Foundation Small Grants Program

1996-1997   Co-Principal Investigator (with Gearhart, M. & Franke, M.). Stakeholders' Understanding of Mathematics Assessments in a Context of Reform: Coordinated Studies of Students, Teachers, Parents, and Principals. Project funded as a part of award from the U.S. Department of Education (R305B60002) for Integrated Assessment Systems for Policy and Practice: Validity, Fairness, Credibility and Utility (E. Baker, PI, The Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing (CRESST).

1995-1996   Principal Investigator. Small grant from the Academic Senate Research Committee at UCLA to support research on the development of measurment concepts in children.

1991-1996   Co-Principal Investigator (with Maryl Gearhart, Deborah Stipek, Susie Haakanson, and Eva Baker). Grant from the National Science Foundation to support research on "Portfolios in Practice."

1989-   Principal Investigator. Grant from the National Science Foundation (Award #MDR-88-55643) to support research on "Peer Interaction As A Context for Mathematics Learning.".

1989-1994   Principal Investigator. Grant from the Spencer Foundation (Award #M-89-0224) to support research on "Peer Interaction As A Context for Mathematics Learning."

1988-1989   Principal Investigator. Small grant from the Academic Senate Research Committee at UCLA to support research on peer interaction as a context for mathematics learning.

1985-1987   Principal Investigator. Grant (2 years) from the National Science Foundation (BNS-85-09101). Grant to support cross-cultural research on the development of mathematical and spatial understanding in rural and urban settings in Brazil.

1985-1986   Principal Investigator. Small grant from the Academic Senate Research Committee at UCLA to support research on the development of mathematical and spatial concepts in rural and urban settings in Brazil.

1985-1986   Principal Investigator. Grant from ISOP at UCLA to support research on the development of mathematical and spatial concepts in rural and urban settings in Brazil.

1984-1985   Principal Investigator. Small grant from the Academic senate Research Committee at UCLA to support research on the development of numerical concepts in young children.

1984-1985   Principal Investigator. Small grant from the Graduate School of Education (Spencer funds) to support research on the development of numerical concepts in young children.

1982-1983   Principal Investigator. Small grant from the Academic Senate Research Committee at UCLA to support research on the development of numerical concepts in young children.

1982-1983   Principal Investigator. Small grant from the Graduate School of Education (Spencer Funds) to support research on the development of numerical concepts in young children.

1980-1983   Principal Investigator. Grant from National Institute of Education. "The Development of Numeration Concepts: The Effects of Language Background, Mother-Child Interaction, and Meta- Cognitive Processes." (#G-80-0119). $162,000.

1980-1981   Principal Investigator. Grant from PSE-BHE, City University of New York. "Children's Counting: An Analysis of Its Origins and Development in Social Interaction."

1980-1981   Principal Investigator. Grant from Department of Education, Papua New Guinea and United Nations Development Program. "A Developmental Analysis of Indigenous Systems of Quantification Among the Oksapmin."

1978-1980   Principal Investigator. Grant from National Institute of Education. "Counting and Number Conservation: Their Developments and Interrelations." (#G-78-.  0076). $66,000.

1978-1979   Principal Investigator. Grant from Sigma Xi. Award supported cross-cultural research on the development of mathematical concepts.

1978-1979   Principal Investigator. Grant from Educational Research Unit of the University of Papua New Guinea. Award supported cross-cultural research on the development of mathematical concepts.

1970-1972   Trainee in Developmental Psychology. Public Health Service Traineeship. University of California, Berkeley.

OTHER AWARDS, HONORS, RECOGNITION

June, 1999   Invited Senior Scholar. Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max  Planck Institute for the History of Science), Berlin, Germany.

June, 1995  Invited fellow. Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIRADE), Universite du Quebec 2L Montreal.

1992 Finalist in Outstanding Book Award Competition. American Psychological Association, Division 1,1992. Culture and Cognitive Development: Studies in Mathematical Understanding.

1992   Finalist in Outstanding Book Award Competition. American Educational Research Association, 1992. Culture and Cognitive Development: Studies in Mathematical Understanding.

1990   Recipient of the Hal and Lois Haytin Faculty Award for "outstanding research in children's learning and achievement"

1985-1986  Fulbright Fellowship. Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology, Universidade de Pernambuco.

1976-1977   Post-doctoral Fellow. NIMH post-doctoral fellowship in pathologies of cognitive development and cognitive functioning. Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston

1970   Recipient of Warner-Brown Memorial Prize. Award for "outstanding promise in research" from University of California, Berkeley.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member   Society for Research in Child Development

Member   American Educational Research Association

1998-present   General Program Chair for the 1999 Meetings of the American Educational Research Association.

1998-9   Consultant, RAND. Project on child care in Malaysia.

1999-   Consultant. MacArthur Foundation task force on Learning and Development.

1996-1999   Board Member, Jean Piaget Society

1996-1997   Conference co-organizer: Culture, Development, & Cognition, Jean Piaget Society

1996-1999   Advisory Board. Through the Glass Wall. TERC - NSF funded project.

1995-1997   Standing member. Spencer Foundation, Review Panel for Dissertation fellowships.

 1995-present  Advisory committee for NSF early faculty career development grant (Joanna Masingila).

1994-1997   Standing member. MacArthur Foundation task force on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood

1998-present   Editorial Board, Journal of Cognitive Development

1998-present   Editorial Board, Journal of the Learning Sciences

1992- present   Editorial Board, Cognition and Instruction

1990- present   Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

1992-1999   Editorial Board, Cognitive Development

1992-1997   Advisory Board, Center for Academic and Institutional Programs, UCLA

1993-1994   Review Panel Member. Sylvia Scribner Award. American Educational Research Association.

1990-1993   Standing Review Panel Member. National Science Foundation. Research in Teaching and Learning Program

1990-1991   Division Chair, 1991 Program for the Meetings of the American Educational Research Association. Division C (Learning and Instruction)

1989-1990   Section Chair, 1990 Program for the Meetings of the American Educational Research Association. Division C (Learning and Instruction), Section 7 (Developmental)

1988   Invited participant in NICHD planning workshop on practical intelligence in children.

1985  Member of technical review panel for National Institute of Education: Center for the Study of Learning

1982  Member of panel at the National Institute of Education to organize secondary analyses of mathematics achievement of language minority populations.

1978-   Occasional grant proposal, conference proposal, book proposal reviews and review panels for: Carmichael's Manual of Child Psychology (5th Edition), American Educational Research Association; Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Inc.; Academic Press; W. W. Norton & Company; Society for Research in Child Development; American Psychological Association; Program in Anthropology, National Science Foundation; Program in Teaching and Learning, National Science Foundation; Program in Memory and Cognitive Processes, National Science Foundation; Program in Social and Developmental Psychology, National Science Foundation; National Institute of Education; NIE-NSF Program of Research on Cognitive Processes and the Structure of Knowledge in Science and Mathematics; the Jean Piaget Society; Spencer Foundation.

1978-   Occasional journal article and book reviews for: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Psychological Bulletin, Contemporary Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
 Developmental Psychology, Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, Journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Human Development, Cognitive Development, Cognition and Instruction.

1976-   I have presented colloquia about my research to departments and programs at various institutions of higher education; these include: University of Georgia; San Diego State University; Princeton University; Columbia University; Rockefeller University; University of Papua New Guinea; University of Massachusetts; Harvard University; The Children's Hospital Medical center, Boston; City University of New York; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Diego; Hampshire College; Rutgers University; UCLA; National Institute of Education; Salk Institute, La Jolla; Universidade Federal Universidade Federal de Belo Horizonte; Universidade de Fluminense (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), UNICAMP, Rio Claro, BRAZIL; University of Tokyo, Japan; Universite du Quebec A Montreal.

PRINCIPAL SERVICE AT UC BERKELEY

1997-present   Lead organizer for new program emphasis for Cognition and Development Area: Intellectual Development in Education, Math, Science, & Technology

1997   Personnel Committee (Member)

1999   Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee